Police investigators place a shotgun into a box at the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue in Orange on Feb. 19. MARK RIGHTMIRE, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

SANTA ANA – A construction worker may have been lured to his death by an early-morning phone call from a Ladera Ranch man who is accused of going on a killing and carjacking spree last month, according to court documents reviewed by the Register.

Jeremy Lewis was the third victim in the shooting spree. Authorities say the shooting rampage on Feb. 19 began at shooting suspect Ali Syed's family home in Ladera Ranch, where a 20-year-old woman was killed with a shotgun blast, and ended at an intersection in Orange, where Syed, 20, killed himself as police closed in.

Lewis had been sitting in his parked Nissan 300ZX next to coworkers in a Tustin parking lot before work when he received a phone call at 5:40 a.m., the court documents show.

"I'll be there in a minute," Lewis told the caller, according to an affidavit in support of a search warrant.

Lewis then immediately backed his car out and drove to a nearby parking lot – where Syed was waiting, according to the affidavit.

Tustin Police Detective Colton Kirwan wrote in the affidavit that Lewis' co-workers saw Syed holding a shotgun as he first ordered Lewis out of the Nissan and then back inside to start the engine, before finally commanding Lewis to "go away."

"Lewis started backing away from Ali Syed," Kirwan wrote in a document called a statement of probable cause. "When Lewis was approximately fifteen feet away, he turned to run. Ali Syed fired one shot at him and Lewis started to limp. When Lewis was approximately thirty feet away, Ali Syed shot him again."

Lewis died in the parking lot from the multiple blasts from the shotgun.

"Based on the phone call received by Jeremy Lewis, and the fact that Lewis drove his vehicle to meet with the suspect, it became apparent that the suspect lured the victim to this location to kill him," Kirwan wrote.

Kirwan's affidavit was in support of a search warrant for Syed's and Lewis' cellphones, plus any call logs, text messages, pictures, images, contacts or other data as part of the investigation to determine how Syed and Lewis knew each other.

Tustin police Lt. Paul Garavan said Monday detectives are reviewing phone records and are not disclosing information regarding why Syed would have Lewis' phone number or what relationship they had.

Syed, who had no criminal record, was unemployed but had been taking classes at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, authorities said.

Lewis, recently of Fullerton but originally from Morongo Valley, graduated from Yucca Valley High School in 2004, according to his Facebook profile, and was into dirt bikes, camping and cars.

Authorities said Syed kicked off the multiple shootings on Feb. 19 when he killed Courtney Aoki, 20, of Buena Park, in his family's Ladera Ranch townhome at 4:45 a.m. He fled in his parents' 2011 GMC Yukon SUV, authorities said.

Syed then carjacked or attempted to carjack at least four cars and shot at several people, at one point even stopping on a freeway transition road to fire into traffic, authorities said. He spared a motorist who gave up his Dodge pickup during a carjacking at a Shell gas station, then shot and killed another driver who gave up his BMW minutes later, authorities said.

Authorities said Melvin Edwards, 69, a Vietnam veteran, was following Syed's commands when he was shot with a shotgun at close range shortly after 5:20 a.m. at the McFadden offramp of the 55 freeway. Police described the killing of Edwards as an execution.

Police believe that Syed then drove Edwards' BMW to the parking lot where he confronted Lewis.

Syed killed himself later, at the corner of Katella Avenue and Wanda Street, with the shotgun used to kill Lewis, authorities said.

Authorities have also not disclosed how Syed knew Aoki, or why she was at his house at 4:45 a.m.

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